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  1. Stuffed duck

  2. Czuczka family correspondence

    Consists of letters written by members of the Czuczka family of Vienna, Austria, between 1939-1941. The majority of the letters were written by Artur Czuczka and detail his attempts to emigrate from Austria and join his brother's family in the United States. The letters were written from Vienna and, after Artur's February 1941 deportation to Opole, from Poland.

  3. American siblings visit Berlin during the Nazi Olympics

    Americans visit Berlin. Street views and city monuments in Berlin. Nazi flags and banners. 01:56 Sign on hood of car: “Nancy Jeux Olympiques” [Nancy Olympic Games]. More street views and monuments and churches. Flags of the participating countries displayed on the street. The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Victory Column, Reichstag building and exterior of Olympic stadium with crowds and rows of parked cars outside. 04:04 Field from the crowded stands; a procession begins. SS man seen in the stands. 05:00 People saluting en masse in the stands. More processions, a flock of birds is released from ...

  4. UNRRA selected records AG-018-039 : Germany Mission

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, circulars, newspapers, incoming and outgoing cables, intelligence reports, and reports relating to legal matters. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: interpretations, drafts, and revisions of U.S., British, French, and military agreements; military government laws affecting displaced persons and civilians; assistance for displaced persons; voluntary agencies; legal assistance and protection for displaced persons and stateless persons; unaccompanied children; emigration and repatriation of displaced persons; supplies and tr...

  5. Edith Horn family papers

    Correspondence regarding the attempt by the Horn family, originally of Vorst, Germany, to obtain restitution from the German government, primarily for property seized from them during the Holocaust. Correspondence is between representatives of the West German government, and attorneys representing the families of Karl and Irene Horn (and their son Werner), as well as Max and Hilde Horn (and their daughter, Edith), in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Germany, between 1949 and 1981. Also included is family correspondence from a the brother of Irene Horn, Walter Eckstein, in Kibbutz Givat Hayim Ichud...

  6. American anti-Japanese "hunting license"

    American propaganda document: anti-Japanese "hunting license." Satirical "Japanese Hunting License" document with no names filled in.

  7. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Jap Hunting License" with outline of map of United States, a "Keep Out" sign and a likeness of Uncle Sam, holding a rifle.

  8. Prayer book

    Prayer book owned by Hugo Zulawski, originally of Vienna, Austria, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a child on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, known as the 50 children transport.

  9. Prayer book

    Prayer book with an anti-Nazi inscription found in the Schnelle home in Germany.

  10. Life (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Consists of one "Life" magazine, dated October 19, 1942, containing a poem entitled "The Murder of Lidice" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

  11. Book written by an Austrian Jewish refugee rescued as a child and brought to the US

    Copy of a book written by Peter Linhard, who, as a six year old, was one of "50 children" brought to America from Vienna, Austria, in 1939 by Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  12. No Third Term campaign button

  13. Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie 1940 presidential campaign button

    Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie campaign button for the 1940 Presidential Election. Several variations of this button were manufactured at a rapid pace. Some had different background colors, while others had different text size and font styles. The campaign button was used to build awareness, and encourage positive word of mouth for the Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie, while simultaneously discouraging support for the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). FDR was running for an unprecedented third term, which was a major factor the Republicans pressed during the campaign...

  14. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Swat the Jap"

  15. American propaganda poster depicting Mussolini, Tojo, and Hitler listening for information

    Poster depicting the heads of Axis leaders, Benito Mussolini of Italy, Hideki Tojo of Japan, and Adolf Hitler of Germany, above a clear warning. Each man is holding a hand cupped to one ear, suggesting that he is listening carefully for any careless talk revealing valuable information about the United States or their allies. The poster was designed by Ralph Iligan, an artist working for the Graphics Division of the United States Office of War Information, in 1942. The need to manage information about the war on the home front led to the establishment of the OWI in June 1942. This office con...

  16. Hitler Wanted for Murder pin

    Anti-Nazi pin-back button distributed in the United States during World War II. The pin falsely claims that Adolf Hitler’s real name is Adolf Schicklgruber (misspelled on the pin as Schickelgruber). An assertion which was originated by Hans Habe, a Viennese Jewish writer. The claim was based on the last name of Hitler’s father, who was born Alois Shicklgruber. Before Hitler was born, Alois changed his name and it became Alois Hitler. The motif of Hitler’s “real” name was likely an attempt to ridicule the leader and belittle him to the public. Buttons of this type came in various sizes, rang...

  17. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Jap You're a Sap"

  18. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  19. Anti-Axis pin calling for the extermination of Axis rats

    Anti-Axis pin-back button distributed in the United States during World War II. The button compares the leaders of Germany, Italy, and Japan to rats and calls for their extermination. The name under the Japanese face, referred to as Togo, may refer to Shigenori Tōgō, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs at the beginning of the war. The name may also be a misspelling of Tojo, a reference to Hideki Tojo who was Prime Minister of Japan during the war and a more popular target of American propaganda. After the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany’s declaratio...

  20. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin